From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 16 01:10:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA29241 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 01:10:08 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA29234 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 01:10:02 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA13025; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 09:09:44 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA15608; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 09:09:44 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA24180; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 08:30:59 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510160730.IAA24180@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 08:30:58 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199510160006.UAA06783@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Oct 15, 95 08:06:30 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 882 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > > >The > > extensive (i.e. blatant) use of message catalogs (AIX, IRIX) leads to > > very undesirable results, e.g. SMTP daemons throwing their error > > messages in German. :-( > > It's hard for me to know how something like smtpd would get its locale Ask IBM how they did it. :-) > set to de_DE in order to do that, but I wonder if that wouldn't be what > I'd want if I were in Germany. Seriously? So, please, drop a mail to foo@informatik.htw-dresden.de, and the tell me if the error message was really useful for you. Even better, find an AIX mailer in Japan, send a mail there, and... :) IMNSHO, daemons that are throwing messages to the outside world should not be localized. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)